Русский космизм и постгуманизм

Abstract

The article is devoted to the original cultural phenomenon of Russian cosmism. The purpose of this article is to show an alternative to posthuman scenarios of the future that Russian cosmism contains. The period of formation of Russian cosmism is proposed to be associated with the penetration of the idea of evolution into culture in the second half of the XIX century. The article analyzes the concepts of posthumanism and transhumanism. It is shown that these systems of ideas about the posthuman future are based on the growing authority of technology. The article argues that manufacturability is becoming the most important characteristic of modern culture. It is shown that the influential idea of the possibility of replacing all living things with artificial ones is associated with the displacement of the idea of the universal energeticity of existence to the periphery of culture. Russian cosmism defends the idea of a living and developing universe permeated with various energies, which can perform a heuristic function when creating post-nonclassical scientific theories.